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Verses like these use to trouble me: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds," -- James 1:2 (NIV) "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials." -- 1 Peter 1:6...
I am lying on my stomach on an operating table, waiting for a doctor to administer the third cortisone shot to my back. It’s one of those bulging disc / pinched nerve things. And I ask myself if I should be praying. I know what to expect: first the local anesthetic...
Life brings invitations. Jesus knew his spiritual journey depended upon responsiveness to God’s invitations. Although his job was the most crucial in human history, Jesus did not get compulsive, preoccupied or unable to practice the presence of God or people. In the...
"Body of Christ broken for you." I repeated this simple phrase as I broke off a piece of the loaf that I was serving to each who came forward to partake of the Lord's Supper. It was our last morning together at a Laity Lodge Writer's Retreat; a retreat that I won't...
He sat in his wheel chair on the corner of Goodwin and Granite Streets as if...
I saw a comment on the company's intranet website recently by a Muslim...
“I want to be part of a church that wants to be part of something.” These...
“Please Lord.” I pray as I step on the scale. I expect a little gain today....
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